“You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There’s nothing like it.”

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.